{"id":5105,"date":"2012-09-09T13:39:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=5105"},"modified":"2012-09-09T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T13:39:48","slug":"answers-to-the-quiz-questions-asked-on-the-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=5105","title":{"rendered":"Answers to the Quiz Questions asked on the last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Answers for the QUESTIONS asked on September 09,2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">GK Question of the day :<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\nWhich of these metropolitan cities of India is nearest to the equator?<br \/>\n(a) Delhi<br \/>\n(b) Mumbai<br \/>\n(c) Chennai<br \/>\n(d) Calcutta<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #008000;\"><strong>The correct answer is (a) Delhi<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>More Explanation :<\/p>\n<p>Is Delhi north or south of the Equator?<\/p>\n<p>North<\/p>\n<p>What is the distance to the equator from New Delhi?<\/p>\n<p>11,265.25 kilometres (6,999.92 miles)<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Improve your English now :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A person who speaks several languages is<br \/>\n(a) Philologist<br \/>\n(b) Pluralist<br \/>\n(c) Linguist<br \/>\n(d) Polygot<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The correct answer is (d) Polygot<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Explanation : Polyglotism is the ability to speak several languages with a high degree of proficiency.<\/p>\n<p>here is no consensus on exactly how many languages a person has to speak to be a polyglot. One could say &#8220;four or more&#8221;, since speakers of two or three languages are commonly called bilingual and trilingual, respectively. The term multilingual is similar.<\/p>\n<p>Linguist Richard Hudson uses the term &#8220;hyperpolyglot&#8221; for a person who can speak six or more languages fluently<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Check your Word Power :<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Which among the following words is opposite in meaning to word &#8220;pious&#8221;?<br \/>\n(a) Religious<br \/>\n(b) Beautiful<br \/>\n(c) Ugly<br \/>\n(d) Impure<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The correct answer is (d) Impure<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Current Affairs for the day :<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Central Board of Direct Taxes (CBDT) has made electronic filing of tax returns mandatory for income more than Rs ___ lakh.<\/p>\n<p>(a) 10 lakhs<br \/>\n(b) 5 lakhs<br \/>\n(c) 7 lakhs<br \/>\n(d) 15 lakhs<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">The correct answer is (a) 10 lakhs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<div><strong>Congratulations <\/strong>to all who posted the correct answers. A new set of questions will be posted soon.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answers for the QUESTIONS asked on September 09,2012 GK Question of the day : Which of these metropolitan cities of India is nearest to the equator? (a) Delhi (b) Mumbai &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=5105\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2070],"tags":[27,317,318,28,1557,829,1329],"class_list":["post-5105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-answers-of-yesterdays-quiz-questions","tag-gk","tag-gk-quiz","tag-gk-today","tag-gktoday","tag-india-quiz","tag-quiz","tag-trivia","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}